jad
-
Posts
4,556 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
1
Content Type
Profiles
Boston Red Sox Videos
2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking
Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
News
2026 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by jad
-
Not sure what the owners agreed to today is going to work. They already agreed with the union in March that players would get a pro-rated portion of their salaries depending on games played. Now the owners are asking for a straight 50/50 split in revenues. Why should the players agree to this, esp. in a league where the owners have pretty consistently hidden or misrepresented what revenues are?
-
You've got that exactly right. And you also point out what MLB is using as a basic assumption: if states are opening up, then that means it's safe to play. But that assumption is ridiculous. The fact that a state opens up has nothing to do with the safety of play, since states are acting largely on political and economic considerations (and sometimes on baseless ideological ones). The end of June plan? ... well, it looks silly, but since MLB officials are still being paid, they are doing well to come up with multiple scenarios; maybe one of them will fit the rapidly changing future. MLB , sadly, has no idea what the situation will be even two weeks down the road. But if thinking we can have baseball by the end of June makes us feel good about things, then fine. Personally, I don't want my hopes dashed. I'm hoping rather we can have, say, football by spring 2021.
-
That's why I rarely play more than 9.
-
? You must hit pretty well! I say that after over half my rounds!"
-
Ah, remember when this seemed so critical to us?? Those were the days!
-
Yup. that's the one. (I can still see some of the cards: Lefty Grove with all the strikeouts; Joe Medwick (?) with all the doubles. Was it Eddie Yost with all the walks?).
-
Why yes! All-Star Baseball! My brother and I played it constantly in the late 50s. He even compiled stats on players to include cards for them beyond those in tthe set. the worse game of all? "Electric baseball." Remember that one?
-
Me too. However, I got back into it as a sleep aid a couple of years ago (I don't drink, blessedly), and right now? I am damn glad I did!
-
If what I saw flying coast to coast today is indicative of how people are acting, we'll be lucky to be done with this soon (unless there is a cataclysmic death toll). 'Social distancing' (even after the alarming lock-downs of, say, SF) was pretty damn rudimentary at bestt, both by passengers and by staff (TSA, bag checkers, etc.)
-
"Thanks for your support" (--D. Trump)
-
As long as you don't care about abortion rights, income equality, gay rights, access to health care, America's standing in the world, crisis management, educattion, etc. (you know, trivial things like that), then you're absolutely right.
-
The paragraph that addresses that is pretty damn vague, seeming giving the commissioner license to do what he wants.
-
What's called "paragraph 11," quoted above in one of my posts. It's the one ESPN was quoting (if you search 'emergency' in the CBA, you'll eventually find it.)
-
That's why, I think, neither of us could find it. But ESPN (check the article) says this is the paragraph that gives the commissioner the right to cancel a season and all the contracts as well (meaning no one gets paid). (I guess thte equivalent of the 'force majeure' clause in the NBA. That's hte way he's reading it (hte phrase "any national emergency"). As I said earlier, we'll sure find out soon, because both sides will be interpreting this clause differently.
-
MVP78: Finally found the paragraph that addresses this (one cited by an ESPN writer). He implied that this gives the commissioner the right tto end the season and end also any pay to players. (No wonder Boras wants the players tto stay in camp!) Governmental Regulation–National Emergency 11. This contract is subject to federal or state legislation, regulations, executive or other official orders or other governmental action, now or hereafter in effect respecting military, naval, air or other governmental service, which may directly or indirectly affect the Player, Club or the League and subject also to the right of the Commissioner to suspend the operation of this contract during any national emergency during which Major League Baseball is not played.
-
I don't know, but why take the chance? Let's do our part to get rid of the other 10% just to be sure. (I doubt we'll be much missed.)
-
Plus, don't forget, the teams will get half the income they would get by D/N doubleheaders. A win for everyone?
-
I agree. We'll soon find out though, because this has to be the primary issue on every player's mind. Since many players are still in camp, there's no real case to be made against paying them. I suspect too that that might be one of the reasons Boras (see 700hitter post above) is saying that camps should be kept open.
-
Hmm. Can't find anything that addresses that, which somewhat surprises me, as other sports have it. Maybe it's implied in some language that I can't construe.
-
But this is a case of what the NBA's CBA calls a "force majeure" event--war, famine, epidemic ... In which case, the league is not bound to pay players. The NHL has a similar clause (not identical), and I would expect there's something in MLB's agreement that is similar. Both NBA and the NHL have said (I believe) that they will not invoke it in this case, but MLB?
-
Given what might happen to the airlines, you Florida folks--how are you planning on getting to NEngland (if you're headed that way)? Anyone out there who wants to take a road trip from CA to Maine in the next month or so?
-
-
No, but they do toss the ball around. (I keep thinking that with my various tennis groups--how do we possibly not get exposed to every cold/virus/flu that anyone on the court has?). And they do share locker rooms.
-
Well, we'll never know for sure. I don't know the numbers, but will the RS get far enough under the cap this year that Castillo might get a look?
-
I.e., become the Marlins.
